ANOMALY ARCHIVES eNEWSLETTER

May / June, 2008

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ANOMALY HEADLINES

The June online edition is posted with a wide variety of content, including Sister Wolf and the Star People - Part 2, Sustainability and the Pressing Need to Raise Our Collective Consciousness, An Interview with Retired NASA Scientist-Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary, Encounters with the Unknown: Madeline Teagle’s Strange Event, Classic Mysteries: Another UFO Story from Alamosa, Colorado - 1957 and much, much more. - Via Anomalist.com

• Hollywood, UFOs and the Occult: The Impending Something by Skylaire Alfvegren
• Morgellons linked to plant bacteria? - KTNV
  www.ktnv.com
• Did Toads Predict The Earthquake? - The Observers
  observers.france24.com
• Is the Truth Really in the MoD’s Newly Revealed X-Files? - Evening
  Express www.eveningexpress.co.uk
• Silbury Gives Up Its Final Secret - Guardian Unlimited
  arts.guardian.co.uk
• Unable to Forget - Newsweek
  www.newsweek.com/id/136334
• Ufological Seriousness and the Media - Culture of Contact
  cultureofcontact.squarespace.com
• German Archaeologist on Trail of Ark of the Covenant - Fox News
  www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355264,00.html
• Superstitious Albino Killings in Tanzania Must Stop - APEM
  studentpa.info/spip.php?article776
• Brain Scam - Salon www.salon.com
• Wiki Weirdness & WV’s Winged Wonder - Cryptomundo
  www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/wiki-weird/
• Interview With The Aliens: The Audio Recording - Forgetomori
  forgetomori.com
• 3-Year-Old Has Never Fallen Asleep - Local 6-TV
  www.local6.com/news/16210114/detail.html
• The Mysterious Entity That Scared Investigators - Alternate Perceptions www.mysterious-america.net/encounters0508.html
• Lake Pepin Monster? ‘Capture’ It for $50,000 - WCCO
  wcco.com/local/lake.pepin.monster.2.717605.html
• Sinkhole and Town: Now You See It… - The New York Times
  www.nytimes.com Daisetta, TX, has a growing problem.
• Man-Made Earthquake: Wired Science from Wired.com
• Tetrapod Zoology : Best lake monster image ever: the Mansi photo
• ABC News: Texas ‘Prophet’: Doomsday Begins June 12
• Seed: The Reality Tests
• “Microchip Implants: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions” - A new report by CASPIAN Consumer Privacy Read the Press Release

• UFO dive-bombs couple on highway | Herald Sun

• Summer Cryptozoology Museum Internships

LIBRARY and ARCHIVE NEWS

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New ANOMALY ARCHIVES Online Catalog at LibraryThing New

BOOKS BY RESERVATION: SAI is excited to announce our new online catalog at the book oriented social networking site, Library Thing. We’ve created an account for the Anomaly Archives collections to make it more easy for members to Search for a Desired Book, and then Contact Circulation about Scheduling a Day/Time to Meet at the INACS Headquarters at the Human Potential Campus located in South Austin at 2007 Bert Avenue.

EVENTS

Disclosure Project Press Conference - Denver Colorado, July 9th

Monthly Austin MUFON Meetings - Second Sunday of Each Month.

Contact Mike DeGroff for locations and times. www.AustinMufon.org

Monthly Austin IONS Meetings - Fourth Tuesday of Each Month.

Tuesday, June 27, 2008 6:30p-8:30p
Austin History Center, Reception Room,
810 Guadalupe Street

www.IonsAustin.org Contact Don Switlick for Information.

INACS Events - www.INACS.org Contact Don Switlick for Information.

The Texas Ghost Lights Conference

Saturday, June 11th, 2005 - Austin Texas

The Marfa Lights in West Texas and the Bragg Light of the Big Thicket have inspired countless legends of restless spirits. But there is a growing body of evidence that, far from being mere curiosities, or the stuff of folklore, the Texas mystery lights constitute a genuine scientific anomaly.

Whether they are called fireballs, ghost lights, spook lights, earth lights, or mystery lights, these unexplained spooky luminosities are surprisingly numerous.  Lights of unknown origin are known to recur in specific locations in North Carolina, Missouri, California, Washington, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Ghost light locations in the British Isles, Norway, Japan, and Australia have also been extensively documented.

Investigators regard the lights as a little understood aspect of the earth’s electromagnetic energy field. But they could be a global phenomenon of paradigm-shifting significance. They sometimes behave peculiarly, as if they are interacting with human observers like curious animals. This may be why the ancient Celtic peoples regarded the lights as fairies, and why the shamans of some cultures sought out the locations of the lights as entrances to the spirit world. Recurring ghost lights could hold clues to a dimension of Nature that is rarely even suspected in the modern age.

Texas is likely to play a key role in emerging earth mysteries research. According to Japanese physicist Dr. Yoshi-Hiko Ohtsuki, there are more sightings of mystery lights in Texas than anywhere else in the world.

On June 11, Natural Awakenings – Austin, with the association of Anomaly Archives, will present “The Texas Ghost Lights Conference” from 2:00 – 8:00 pm at the First Unitarian Universalist Church at 4700 Grover in Austin. You will learn the latest about this curious phenomenon from four leading authorities on ghost lights, complete with photographs and video displays.

Renowned British author, lecturer, and broadcaster, Paul Devereux, is an experienced researcher dealing mainly with consciousness studies and ancient sacred sites. He is the author of Earth Lights Revelation, Fairy Paths & Spirit Roads, Re-Visioning the Earth, and numerous other scholarly articles and books. He will explain why the lights have much to teach our physicists and remarkable lessons to teach all of us.

Nick Redfern is the author of the books A Covert Agenda:The FBI Files; Cosmic Crashes; Strange Secrets; Three Men Seeking Monsters; and the forthcoming Body Snatchers In The Desert. He is the Editor of the newsstand magazine, Phenomena. Nick has uncovered intriguing official British Government files on unidentified luminous phenomena and ghost lights that date back nearly a century, and will be discussing this never-before-seen data at the conference.

James Bunnell is the author of two books on the Marfa Lights, Seeing Marfa Lights and Night Orbs.  He is an aeronautical and mechanical engineer and retired in 2000 from BAE Systems as Director of Mission Solutions for U.S. Air Force Programs. He will present a fascinating video slide show of photographs taken from two monitoring stations he set up that illustrate his contention that the Marfa Lights constitute a deep-rich-fascinating mystery that never ceases to amaze those who take time to investigate.

Rob Riggs is the Editor of Natural Awakenings – Austin, the author of In the Big Thicket: Exploring Nature’s Mysterious Dimension, and contributed chapters on unexplained phenomena, ancient mysteries and the Texas Ghost Lights in Weird Texas, to be published later this year by Barnes & Noble. He has appeared on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast and numerous radio shows discussing the ghost lights and other mysteries of the Big Thicket.

S. Miles Lewis of the Anomaly Archives (lending library of the Scientific Anomaly Institute) will be the moderator of the event, which will include a panel discussion and question and answer session.

The price for admission to this fascinating six hour event is only $25.

Tickets go on sale April 11, and there is limited seating available.

For ticket information, or to get detailed bios and photos of the presenters, call (512) 326-4100

or e-mail <austineditor@naturalawakeningsmag.com>

Stephen Miles Lewis - Founder, President and Board Member - Audio Production Administrator for the Texas State Library Talking Book Program. Past State Section Director for the Travis and Williamson County chapters of the Mutual UFO Network. Web designer and print publisher of E.L.F. Infested Spaces Journal of Possible Paradigms.

Miles served as facilitator for Austin’s UFO Experiencer Support Group for nearly ten years and has spoken to local and national radio / TV / print media. In 1995 he spoke at the national Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness conference on the subject of UFOs as a transformative paradigm. His interests in both the physical and folkloric research of parapsychology and ufology have led to his collecting and archiving of over 3000 books on these and other topics relevant to consciousness research and the founding of the Anomaly Archives, lending library of the Scientific Anomaly Institute.

Don Switlick - Treasurer - Board Member - Founder of Austin IONS, the local community group of the Institute Of Noetic Sciences. Don is also active among such local consciousness groups as INACS (as their Director of Education facilitating INACS’ Consciousness Connections series), the Jung Society of Austin, and most recently Omega at The Crossings.

James L. King - Secretary - Board Member - Founder of INACS, the Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies. He is a local realtor and former independent computer consultant. Jim has had a lifelong interest in the study of consciousness. His personal research interests currently focus on mental imagery, neurofeedback, and brain-computer interfaces. He has had a lifelong interest in anomalies associated with consciousness, as well as their implications for understanding physics and the natural world.

Jim received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Houston in 1972, and has completed 15 graduate level hours in psychology and education. He has fifteen years of experience data processing and computer programming, and has owned his own consulting business. He has also been involved in community volunteer activities, including past and present service on the Boards of Directors of other non-profit organizations.

Mike DeGroff - Board Member - Austin MUFON - State Section Director for Travis and Williamson Counties. Mike is a trained MUFON Field Investigator. Mike has been instrumental in the founding of the Anomaly Archives and it’s continued growth.

Ray Hawkins, Ph.D., ABPP (Clinical Psychology), Board Member - is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Nueroscience and Consciousness Studies (INACS). Ray received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, after completing a one-year pre-doctoral internship at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. From 1975 to 1982 he was an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he co-edited two books and published several articles on addictive behavior and biofeedback applications. In 1979 he co-founded the Austin Stress Clinic, the first private clinic in Austin to specialize in biofeedback and clinical health psychology.
     In 1982, Ray joined the Austin Regional Clinic as a staff psychologist, where he continued his clinical research on addictive behaviors and began new research on the relationship between Jungian personality types, addictive behaviors, chaos theory, and other behavioral health issues, including chronic pain. He is now a core faculty member in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Fielding Graduate University, and is clinical psychologist at New Life Institute, where he also serves as training clinic director.
     Ray is also on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, Psychology Department, as a lecturer and clinical supervisor, and since 1998 he has been an adjunct professor in the Master of Arts Program in Pastoral Ministry at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.
     Ray’s current clinical research interests are in individual differences in personality, consciousness, and spirituality.

TIMELINE

• 2002 - First Anomaly Archives Meetings

• July 23rd 2003 - Approved as a Non-Profit State Corporation
• 2003 - Premier Open House - November

• 2004 - Premier Issue of the Anomaly Archivist print newsletter - April
• 2004 - Free Lecture by Adam Gorightly - April
• 2004 - Summer Consciousness Picnic - June
• 2004 - Collections totaling over 3000 books cataloged - December

• 2005 - First edition of the Free Anomaly Archives eNewsletter - January
• 2005 - March Open House
• 2005 - Free Lecture by Paul Smith - March (flier)
• 2005 - Magazine Collections totaling over 800 issues cataloged - March
• 2005 - Launched SAI Podcasts - April
• 2005 - Workshop: Extraordinary Experiences & Possible Paradigms - April
• 2005 - Received Paul Rydeen Collection Donation - April
• 2005 - Received Dennis Stacy Collection Donation - April
• 2005 - Summer Consciousness Picnic - May
• 2005 - Texas Ghostlights Conference - June (Sponsor: Natural Awakenings magazine)
• 2005 - SAI Closes 2007 Bert location - books by reservation - August
• 2005 - Cataloged Paul Devereux Collection Donation - September
• 2005 - Posted Job Description for Volunteer Asst Curator - October
• 2005 - Received Second Dennis Stacy Collection - November
• 2005 - Received Third Dennis Stacy Collection - December

• 2006 - Announced new Volunteer Assistant Curator - January
• 2006 - Launched Monthly SAI Meetings - February
• 2006 - Received Fourth Dennis Stacy Collection - March
• March 17, 2006 - Received 501(c)3 status from the IRS
• 2006 - Received San Antonio Parapsych Assoc Collections Donation - April

• 2007 - Austin American Statesman coverage of SAI - August
• 2007 - Free lecture with SMiles Lewis & Mike DeGroff: UFOs 101 - November

• 2008 - ReLaunched eNewsletter - January/February

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• Free lecture UFOs 101 with SMiles Lewis & Mike DeGroff - November 2007

• Texas Ghost Lights Conference with Paul Devereux, Nick Redfern, James Bunnell, and Rob Riggs. June 11th 2005 - Six hour event in Austin, Texas.

• Summer Consciousness Picnic - May 2005

• Reading The Enemy’s Mind - March 8th, 2005 - Free public lecture by Former Military Remote Viewer Paul Smith.

• Summer Consciousness Picnic - June 2004

• The Prankster and the Conspiracy - Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 - Free public lecture by Adam Gorightly about the strange world of Kerry Thornley.

• Anomaly Archives Grand Opening - Friday, November 14th, 2003 - Open House

• Hans Holzer - Ghosts, Hauntings and the Paranormal

• Ivan Sanderson - CryptoZoology, USO’s - Aquatic UFOs and UltraTerrestrials, Uninvited Visitors and More

• John G. Fuller - UFOs, Close Encounters, Abductions, and Classic Ufology

• John Keel - Fortean Anomalist Paranormal Journalist

• Loren Coleman - CryptoZoologist Anomalist Fortean ParaPolitical Journalist, Researcher, and Suicidologist

• Philip Kindrid Dick - Experiencer, Contactee, Science Fiction Writer, Futurist, Gnostic, Paranoid

• Ted Holiday - CryptoZoologist and ParaUfologist

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The Anomaly Archives is the lending library of the Scientific Anomalies Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that seeks:

• Preservation and dissemination of scientific research into anomalous phenomena
• Research and analysis of accumulated collections
• Education of the public regarding scientific investigations into these phenomena

Our collection houses over 1500 books as well as research materials such as, videos, documents, magazines, and personal correspondence. Along with the S.A.I. collection, we also house the collections of Austin MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), and Austin IONS (Institute Of Noetic Sciences) and INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies). We house many great books that discuss a wide range of scientific subjects including:

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